Buffalo rapper Conway the Machine and Method Man have released a new video for their track, “Lemon,” which will appear on Conway’s upcoming album, From King to a God, out September 11th via Griselda Records/Drumwork/Empire. Directed by Langston Sessoms, the “Lemon” clip is the perfect no-frills visual to accompany the …
Read More »How Keith Richards is Spending His Quarantine
As the pandemic took hold in March, Keith Richards called up Mick Jagger with an idea: The Stones should rush-release “Living in a Ghost Town,” a funky song they’d recorded not long ago for their first album of new songs since 2005. “I said, ‘Hey man, if there’s a time …
Read More »Michael Des Barres Delivers Acoustic 'Obsession' in Documentary Outtake
From British nobility to posh schoolboy to glam rocker to addict to actor and everything in between, Michael Des Barres has lived more than his share of lifetimes — an existence perhaps best exemplified by his hit 1983 song, “Obsession.” Rolling Stone has an exclusive acoustic performance of the song …
Read More »Nick Cave to Release 'Idiot Prayer' Solo Piano Concert as Live LP
Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer livestream concert — featuring the singer performing solo on piano without an audience at London’s Alexandra Palace — will be released as a live album and theatrical film. Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace — out November 20th on CD, vinyl and streaming …
Read More »J Dilla Died In 2006. He's Now Being Sued for Using a 1974 Rock Sample
2020’s spate of copyright cases just keeps getting weirder. In the latest legal tussle over music rights, the record label and publishing companies that worked on J Dilla‘s Donuts — an album that dropped three days before the hip-hop artist’s death in 2006 — have until next Wednesday to respond …
Read More »'Black Panther' Actress Danai Gurira Remembers Chadwick Boseman
Danai Gurira has released a statement in remembrance of Chadwick Boseman following news of the actor’s death last Friday. Gurira co-starred with Boseman in the Marvel filmBlack Panther, where she portrayed the Wakanda warrior Okoye. “How do you honor a king? Reeling from the loss of my colleague, my friend, …
Read More »Armando Iannucci on 'David Copperfield,' Dickens and the Death of Political Humor
It will not take viewers very long to pick up on the fact that The Personal History of David Copperfield is unlike your typical stuffed-shirt period piece. Yes, there are elegant dresses and frocks, and men wear waistcoats and extremely tall hats, and horses and street urchins skitter along the …
Read More »Back to School? Roundtable of Educators and Parents Discuss Anxieties, Solutions
What is more normal — and expected — each end of summer than students and teachers to return to school? So far, the coronavirus crisis has killed an estimated 180,000 so far within United States borders. And in some cases, public school teachers have been deemed “essential workers” and told …
Read More »Jazmine Sullivan Returns With Heartbreaking Ballad 'Lost One'
Jazmine Sullivan is casually devastating on “Lost One,” her first new single in over two years, which she released Thursday at midnight. “Lost One” is a parched ballad, mostly just a guitar lick and Sullivan’s crystalline vocals. While the musical bed is unerringly calm, the lyrics are bracing, delivered from …
Read More »Mike Pence Spouts Copaganda in Convention Speech, Promises to Hold the 'Thin Blue Line'
In his convention speech Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence backed cops to the hilt, while baselessly warning that a Biden administration would leave America unprotected. Pence even invoked a line from the mythology of American policing — that cops represent a fragile barrier between social order and unbridled violence. …
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